IVhorseman wrote:There's a couple rules (carrying capacities being one of them) that if you treated the same way every time, the game would turn out boneriffic.

Yeah, I get what you mean. If they applied universally across the board, my Roman Signifer would be in bad shape...

Actually a battle standard gets a specific rule for not causing encumbrance in the 2005 rules.

BW2005 wrote:A Standard doesn’t necessarily have any “existence” as an in-game object if it's not convenient. Its main purpose is to act as a navigational symbol for the players rather than as a physical equipment item for a unit (although a Standard may be mounted on a "real" equipment item, such as a pennant that’s attached to a knight’s lance). A soldier holding a banner in one hand may still use a Two-Handed Weapon held in the other hand as if he weren't holding the banner, for instance.

Standards don’t cost any CP, and players may choose to add or remove Standards from the battle at will as new Squads form and old Squads dissolve. In general, minifigs should not be allowed to use a “non-existing” Standard as a weapon or tool (especially a Standard that “magically appeared” in the middle of battle) unless they’re using it to do something funny enough that the other players are laughing too hard to object.